IRAN
Iran is undetterred
Washington Post- July 21, 2011
There has been no change in Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons or in its aggressive efforts to drive the United States out of the Middle East.
Do we have an Iran policy?
Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post- Jul 19, 2011
The Obama administration is consumed with the debt ceiling debate and with preventing a meltdown in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Meanwhile, the greatest threat to our national security in decades, the potential for a nuclear-armed Islamic revolutionary state in Tehran, still looms.
PAKISTAN
Musharraf says no complicity on bin Laden
AFP- July 21, 2011
Former president Pervez Musharraf insisted Thursday that Pakistan did not provide assistance to Osama bin Laden as he renewed criticism of the US raid that killed the world’s most wanted man.
US congressional panel rejects proposal to cut off aid to Pakistan
Telegraph- July 22, 2011
The House Foreign Affairs Committee easily blocked an amendment to a spending bill that would have banned any assistance to Pakistan in the wake of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden near the country’s main military academy.
AFGHANISTAN
Doubt clouds NATO handover in Afghanistan
Aymeric Vincenot, AFP- July 22, 2011
Grave doubts over the ability of Afghanistan’s fledgling security forces to beat back the Taliban are weighing on a transition from NATO control taking place in seven parts of the country this week.
NORTH KOREA
Asian nations moce to calm tensions: US commends
Matthew Lee and Robin McDowell, Associated Press- July 22, 2011
On the sidelines of a Southeast Asian regional security conference in Bali, Indonesia, China and its neighbors reached a draft agreement to peacefully resolve competing territorial claims in the strategic South China Sea while North and South Korea agreed to resume talks.
North and South Korea hold ‘constructive’ disarmament talks
Matthew Lee, Globe and Mail- July 22, 2011
Top nuclear envoys from North and South Korea emerged smiling from a face-to-face meeting Friday, saying they were ready to work together to resume stalled disarmament talks.
NORWAY
Norway: Blast near prime minister’s office in Oslo
BBC- July 22, 2011
A large explosion has hit near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
GUANTANAMO BAY
Send suspected terrorists to Guantanamo- not New York
Joseph I. Lieberman and Kelly Ayotte, Washington Post- July 21, 2011
The United States has a first-rate, professionally run facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that is designed for terrorist detentions, interrogations and military trials.
